BEST SUITED FOR
Hetzner Cloud:DevOps engineers, self-hosters, SaaS backends, and developers wanting maximum compute per dollar
Scaleway:European startups, SaaS architects, and data teams wanting EU data sovereignty and low bandwidth egress bills
PRICING MODEL
Paid (Starts at $4/mo)
Freemium (Starts at $0/mo)
ACTIVE DISCOUNT OFFERS
0% OFF (PRICING)
0% OFF (PRICING)
STANDOUT ADVANTAGES
Unmatched price-to-performance ratio: often 4x to 8x cheaper than equivalent AWS or Google Cloud instances 20TB of included outbound traffic eliminates the fear of surprise bandwidth overage bills Fast NVMe disk I/O delivers exceptional database throughput Full European GDPR data sovereignty with zero US CLOUD Act jurisdiction Much lower egress bandwidth costs than AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Free Kubernetes control plane on all tiers KNOWN SHORTCOMINGS
Account verification for non-EU customers includes identity verification to prevent abuse Limited managed services (requires team to manage their own Linux server configuration) Fewer niche enterprise AI hardware accelerators than AWS Console UI can have minor delays during peak European business hours